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Aravind Srinivas

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  1. Our readingPrompt engineering is not a durable skill, because a good product is one that works for the user who never learned to phrase a question.

    chat interfaces

    Their wordsAnd also this is where I believe the whole prompt engineering, trying to be a good prompt engineer is not going to be a long-term thing. I think you want to make products work where a user doesn’t even ask for something, but you know that they want it and you give it to them without them even asking for it.

    ↗Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434youtube.com 4th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe transformer was close to the last answer in architecture: nothing about the core design has changed since 2017.

    Their wordsAnd that is the, I would say, it’s almost like the last answer. Nothing has changed since 2017 except maybe a few changes on what the nonlinearities are and how the square descaling should be done. Some of that has changed.

    ↗Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434youtube.com 7th of 20 in this recording